The President yesterday (5/1/17) mused that his idol, Andrew Jackson, could have made a tremendous deal between the North and the South, averting the Civil War... CONAN found a clip in a strangely familiar documentary style by the Commander-In-Chief which speculated on other alt-events...

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May

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

The phrase Top 10 has special resonance in our competitive society, especially in areas having to do with popular music. Tonight, after last night’s performances, the lowest-ranked performers try to escape elimination by performing on live TV one more time – and to make the cut to next week’s roster of challengers. For this cycle of The Voice, that group will, indeed, represent this year’s Top 10. As for judges this time around, we have the Top 4, with job security until

2017

May

VICTORIAN SLUM HOUSE: THE 1860S By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Back in 1999, back even before we had CBS’s Survivor bringing reality TV into prime time in a big way, we had a weird little PBS series called The 1900 House, which put modern contestants in a period environment, asking them to live the way previous generations had – and to document their feelings by speaking privately into a “confession cam” when not churning butter, using outhouses, and so on. As televised “social experiments” go, it was bet

2017

May

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

Tonight, it’s Zombie with a Whip: Liv (Rose McIver), in tonight’s new episode, ingests the brains – and personality – of a dominatrix. (This is what's known, in zombie lingo, as being on a strict diet.) The episode is titled “Spanking the Zombie,” and I wouldn’t necessarily recommend approaching it without a safe word.

2017

May

GENIUS: ALBERT EINSTEIN By David Bianculli

No matter how smart you thought the young Einstein, played by Johnny Flynn, was in last week’s premiere episode of Genius: Albert Einstein, tonight he’s smarter. Because he’s older, even when he’s not played by Geoffrey Rush. And besides – even when it comes to the intelligence of Albert Einstein, all things are relative…

2017

May

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “Farewell, Cruel World!” – and it’s a hint that, as advertised, this show’s heroes (and villains) may finally find themselves out of the alternate-universe Framework, and back in the real world. At least I presume this is the real world. Sometimes, the idea of an elaborate and imaginary computer construct seems to make a lot more sense…

2017

May

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

The Russian spies posing as heads of a typical American family have had it tough enough with their own, actual teen kids. But tonight, the spy pretending to be one of their adopted kids, while they’re play-acting as a different couple entirely, goes so off-book that they confront him, violently, about his actions, and his real motives. Meanwhile, that super-toxic nerve agent they helped their government procure? It may be back…

2017

May

PBS' 'VICTORIAN SLUM HOUSE' MORE LIKE HISTORIC 'SURVIVOR' By David Hinckley

Victorian Slum House might be best called a hybrid between a PBS documentary and the PBS version of reality television...

2017

May

MINHAJ MAKES THE MOST OF HIS WHITE HOUSE ROAST By Bill Brioux

Hasan Minhaj, one of Trevor Noah’s comedy correspondents on The Daily Show, did not get to mock Donald Trump to his face Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner... wh..ich was probably all for the best.

2017

May

KEVIN CAN WAIT By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This new Kevin James CBS sitcom completes its first season with a two-part finale, concluding next week, that intentionally alludes to James’ most successful CBS sitcom series: The King of Queens, in which Leah Remini played his wife. In this Season 1 finale story, Remini returns as special guest star, playing a former fellow cop who once “played” Kevin’s wife during a undercover assignment. A current investigation requires the two to reprise their former u

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